Movable foot rest for bootblack stands



Patented Dec, 15, 1925.

g UNITED. STATES EENBY nonGMANN, or wAsHmGroN, nsrmor or COLUMBIA.

MOVABLE FOOT BEST FOR BOOTBLACK STANDS.

Application filed April s, 1925.' Serial No. 24,157.

To all whom it may concem:

` Be it known that I, HENRY BORMANN, a citizen of the United States, residng at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Movable Foot Rest for Bootblack stands, of which the following is a specification.

By way of explanation, it may be stated that when a person ascends to a chair, on a bootblack stand, or descends from a chair, the garments of the person frequently are torn by being caught on the foot rest of the stand; and in any event, the foot rest is in the way, after the occasion for its use has passed. The foregoing being understood, this invention aims to provide a novel means whereby a foot rest on a blacking stand may be turned back into an noperative and out of the way position when not in use.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that sort to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings:-

Figure 1 shows in' front elevation, a blacking stand embodyin r the present improvements, the foot rest %eing swung back into an inoperative position;

Figure 2 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale, the foot rest being shown in solid line in working position;

F igure 3 is a plan disclosing the shaft and parts associated therewith;

Figure 4 is an elevation of the latch and attendant parts, portions being in section;

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the bracket which carries the latch.

In the drawings, there is shown a blacking stand 1 which may be constructed in any desired way. As shown, however, the black-' ing stand includes sides 2 carrying a platform 3, and carrying, also, a step 4 disposed below and in front of the platform, the blacking stand comprising a front panel 5 located below the step 4, at the front of the stand. In the front portion of the stand, between the step 4 and the platform 3 there is an opening 6. A seat 7, which may be of any desired sort, is mounted on the platform 3.

Bearings 8-are Secured to the under surface of the platform 3 in close relation to the sides 2. In the bearings 8, a horizontal shaft 9 is mounted for rotation. Foot rests 10 are supplied, these foot rests including a curved arm 11 and a tread plate 12 mounted on the outer end of the arm. The arms 11 are located close enough to the bearings 8, so that the shaft 9 cannot move endwise in the bearings. The numeral 14 designates a curved keeper including a hub 15 receiving the shaft 9. The keeper is adjustable either longitudinally of the shaft, or circumferentially of the shaft, so that the keeper may be made to cooperate with a latch hereinafter described, and to the end that the latch may be located in various accessible places. A set screw 16 is threaded into the hub 15 of the keeper 14, and, co- Operating with the shaft 9, holds the keeper in any position to which it may have been adjusted. At its forward end, the keeper terminates in a finger 17.

A bracket 18 is provided, the same being shown in detail in Figure 5. The bracket 18 comprises a plate-like body 19 Secured to the under surface of the platform 3, at a point slightly in front of the shaft 9, the body having depending ears 20. In one edge of the body 19 of the bracket 18 there is a seat 21. In the opposite edge of the body there is a seat 22 which is considerably shallower than the seat 21. The ears 20 of the bracket 18 are connected by a pivot element 23 whereon a latch 24 is mounted for swinging movement in a vertical plane,

e the latch 24 practically filling the space between the ears 20. The latch 24 is supplied in its rear edge with a recess 25 defining an upstanding lug 26. At the upper end of the latch 24 there is a stop finger 27 received in the recess or seat 21 of the body 19 of the bracket 18. The numeral 28 designates a spring tongue. The lower end of the spring tongue 28 is connected by a securing element 29 to the latch 24, the upper end of the spring tongue being received in the recess 22 of the bracket, so that the spring tongue cannot Swing on the securing element 29, should the securing element become loosened slightly, it will always remain in operative relation to both the latch V is disposed a coiled spring and the bracket which carries the lateh. IL retainer 30 is 'monnted in the ears 20 ot the bracket 18, in front of the stop linger- 27 of the lateh 24. About the retainer 30 EL, the *ende of which are mounted in openngs 82 forn'ed in the body 19 'ot the braeket 18 and in the npper portion ot the lateh The springs 31 and 28, ohviously, tend to Swing the latch 24- baelwardly'into the position shown in Figur-e l until the stop nger 2? ot the lateh &buts against the body 19 of the braeket 18, within the .seat 21. i

Assuznng that the foot rest 10 is in an inoperative position within the eontour ot the blocking stand the oi eretoimay Swing the foot rest forwardl and upwardly, into the position delineated in Figur-e the keeper latautematically with the leteh the late tiltinp` or svinging, to pernit the inger l? of the keeper to engage with the 26 of the hteh. By pulling the lower end ot the lateh ll forwnrdly, the latch may be disengaged froni tae h eper and down.

Having thus described the intention, what is claimed is zl In a de 'ice of the class described, a shalt neansfor mounting the shaft for rotation a foot rest carried by the shet't, a keeper, means for mounting` the keeper on the shaft .tor adjustinent longitudinally of the shatt and cireunferentially of the shalt, and a lateh wherewith the keeper engage to hold the foot rest in an operative position. 2. The conbination with a blacking stand thereupon. the foot rest will Swing including a substantially horizontal platform and a seat earried by the plat'orm and spaeed vertieallv froni the platform, of a shalt supported Ior rotation upon the undersurtaoe ot the platform, &depending latch :supported tron the undersurface of the platform and located in front of the shatt, a 'foot rest inounted on *the shatt, and a keeper projeeting tron the shaft and adapted to eooperate with the lateh to hold the foot rest advanced, the lateh, the :foot and the keeper being` located entirely ti' e i'c-'ar ot the forward ed ge of the platz' n when the 'foot rest is in an inoperative poeitiot the stand being open at the 'front and being ot snlieient height to permit the *foot rest to freely downV-sardly into :in inoperative position.

need llQll'- means: for securing the hearings to the undersurtaee of a support, a shatt journaled in the bearings, foot rest& (-arried by the shatt and eooperating` with the inner ed es of the bearings to prevent the ehatt from moving endwise, a latch, means or niounting the latch movahly in a suhstentially Vertical position on the undersurface of e support, and a keeper earried by the shaft and eooperating` with the lateh to hold the 'foot rests in an advanced position, the lateh being located in front ot the shalt and between the bearings.

In testimony that I claim the fore going as my own, I have hereto aiixed my signature.

HENRY BORGMANN.

lir a device of the class deseribed i 

